Alexa, read a book
Dec 28 2021 The BBC
Artificial Intelligence enthusiasts rage about AI and the brave new world it will bring, but looks like it is still more Artificial than Intelligent.
Maybe if AI developers spent more time reading books than shooting zombies or slaying weird creatures on computers and game consoles, they would have encountered (and just maybe; remembered) the Three Laws of Robotics.
First Law
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second Law
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Third Law
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
These laws were devised by Isaac Asimov and can be found in his 1950 book “I, Robot”, which, fittingly for this story, can be ordered from, of all places: Amazon.
